Promising futures for young talent

 

Education is about more than equipping students with the skills to pass exams successfully, inspired schemes can help to nurture young talent, says Helena Pozniak.

  At St Peter’s School, York, students are mentored by a local design business and have come up with products such as recycled designer bags. By Helena Pozniak

At the age of nine, Oliver Pritchard-Barrett was doing the rounds of his home town of Modbury in Devon, charging residents five pence to recycle their bottles.“I wanted to earn my own money,” says the 17-year-old, who went on to buy and rent music speakers at 14 and now runs his own website design business. details...